Results from the City Council election have sent a strong message to the State Government.
At a time when the State Government is relentlessly attacking your Park Lands, it is Park Lands advocates and protectors who have been endorsed by voters.
Art Prize - free entry for 20 school students
More haste, less Park Land
The process of getting a new law passed by Parliament is usually slow and cumbersome.
However, the most serious new law affecting your Adelaide Park Lands went through all stages in the Legislative Council in less than three hours.
This new law gives two State Government Ministers unfettered powers to confiscate any of your Park Lands that they want.
Diversions, illusions on Park attacks
State Government spin doctors (and some media allies) have been busy with smoke and mirrors, trying to cloud the truth about multiple Park Lands attacks (five this year so far).
Like magicians who divert your attention to create an illusion, State Government misinformation is hiding the truth about massive losses to your Open Green Public Park Lands.
The wonder of wasps
Every creature matters in its own wonderful way – including wasps, according to writer Katrina Germein.
The bestselling children’s author has just released her first non-fiction picture book, Wonderful Wasps.
We spoke to Katrina about the project - including why more wasps means fewer spiders! - and her love of your Park Lands.
Kaurna tour for kids
The Digital Maestro of the Park Lands Art Prize
With entries open for our biennial Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize, we wanted to put the spotlight on those making things happen behind the scenes.
Among the unsung heroes is webmaster Brook Gerard. Although he’s based in the historic mining town of Burra – a two-hour drive from the CBD – this hasn’t stopped him from being involved in the competition since its inception in 2014.
Demand brownfield building sites instead
If you love your Adelaide Park Lands then please take a moment to protect them from the State Labor Government’s unprecedented series of attacks.
Threats to put a series of massive new buildings onto your Open Green Public Park Lands must be the subject of a full inquiry. Your email to MPs can make a difference.
Safety first for disc golf
How much bitumen does a Park need?
Visitors to Victoria Park / Pakapakanthi (Park 16) have been expressing surprise at the extent of new paved roadways, laid over what were previously dirt tracks.
Although the freshly-laid bitumen will last for decades, it has been laid for a very temporary purpose: to prop up a taxpayer-subsidised carbon emission festival for only four days per year, and only until 2026.
Kurangga Wetlands New Beginnings
After more than a year’s gestation, the little sister to the Victoria Park wetlands has now been born, complete with newly-established reed beds, widened creek line, and trails.
Park Ambassador Peter Lumb and photographer Lyndon Stacy have inspected the finished waterway and mini-wetlands in Blue Gum Park / Kurangga (Park 20).
"Unprecedent" Gov't land grab needs scrutiny - Opposition
The State Opposition and the Greens are preparing to jointly demand a Select Committee of State Parliament to investigate the Government's "unprecedented" grab for your Open Green Public Adelaide Park Lands.
The State Government has U-turned on its previous support for State Heritage listing of your Park Lands, and has launched attacks on Park Lands for four separate projects each of which could be built on vacant brownfield sites.
Good neighbours to have
When stunning, filmic images of horses kept popping up on our social media feed, we imagined that they had been taken someplace afar.
It was only on closer inspection that we discovered that the beautiful pictures were actually taken in your Lefevre Park / Nantu Wama (Park 6).
We had to find out more about the photographer behind the awe-inspiring ‘Horses of North Adelaide’ account. Here’s what we uncovered…
Labor U-turns on heritage & launches fourth attack
The Labor Party has u-turned on its previous support for State Heritage listing of your Adelaide Park Lands, while flagging yet another Park Lands attack, the fourth in just seven months.
The latest proposed attack: new Police buildings; provides further evidence that there is very little Park Lands Love within State Government ranks.
Restoration Challenge Issued
The State Government has been challenged to bring forward its proposed restoration of your Park Lands near the old Adelaide Gaol.
The Adelaide Park Lands Association has welcomed an announcement by Health Minister Chris Picton that fences around parts of the old Gaol and Kate Cocks Park should be removed, and the Park landscaped.
However Mr Picton should be acting promptly to remove these fences and restore public access to these areas of your Park Lands.
Art Prize: Why Do They Do It?
Entries have been coming in, steadily, over the past few weeks for the 2023 Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize.
The motto for our Art Prize competition is “Inspire”. We hope and expect that artists, inspired by your Adelaide Park Lands, will create artistic works that inspire others. But why do our sponsors and donors contribute?
Three attacks in seven months
We hope that you love your Park Lands, and we hope that you will help us spread the love. The greatest challenge that we face, every day, is trying to convince the State Government to Love Your Park Lands too.
Elected in March 2022 on a platform that included protecting Parks and tree canopy, the Labor State Government has since shown, by its actions, that it does not love your world-unique Adelaide Park Lands.
BioBlitz: easy citizen science adventure: 30 Oct
Join thousands of fellow Australians around the country, in using your smart-phone to observe and record whatever life you can see or hear, in one of the rare precious bushland areas in your Adelaide Park Lands.
Join us with your smartphone on Sunday morning, 30 October, 10am to 12 noon, on the Wirrarninthi Environmental Trail within Park 23. We’ll help you record biodiversity as part of the Great Southern BioBlitz.
"Better connectivity" for Women's and Children's Hospital
A review of possible sites for a new Women's and Children's Hospital has found that a site near the corner of West Terrace and North Terrace would be "relatively inexpensive" to acquire, and would offer significantly better connectivity with the broader biomedical, research and university precinct.
Meantime debate over the hospital site has gone national; with the Chair of the Australian Heritage Council advocating for Your Park Lands.
Check list of construction sites
There’s been a lot of publicity in recent weeks about two controversial development proposals in your Open Green Public Park Lands.
However the proposed new Aquatic Centre in Park 2, and the proposed new Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Park 27 are only the latest examples of a decades-long trend of Park losses. In October 2022, work is well underway to build over Park Lands at four other sites.
